I Would Say I Have Too Much Free Time, But I Don't. I Actually Made Time For This.

I would say I have too much free time, but I don't. I actually made time for this.

What am I doing with my life?

Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie by Leadbelly covered by Pete Seeger covered by the New York Philharmonic Kazorchastra

Don’t drink and derive.

Want more crazy animal senses?

If the electrici-bee wasn’t enough for you:

Echolocation of bats

A whole list of creatures that sense electricity

The magnetic field sensing of birds and salmon

Fish who live too deep to sense night and day keep their clocks by sensing changes in current with their lateral line sensors.

I mentioned, a while back, that the next chance I had I would make a snow dodecahedron. I have failed you; it was too damn cold. Instead, a made a really ominous hand. Is someone rising from the dead from beneath the snowy ground? Is it sentient snow possessed by the need to exact vengeance upon us all for salting the sidewalks? Is it an evil snowman?

The Australian Museum in Sydney has one of the most interesting ways of displaying their taxidermy specimens, such as this human skeleton riding a horse. The have a lot of of stuffed Australian animals placed in corners and over ledges like they are spying on you. Also they have several platypus skeletons and a few stuffed ones as well. And their website has a page dedicated to the infamous and elusive Drop Bears.

This is great!  This image also does a wonderful job of illustrating the unguligrade locomotion of a Perissodactyl.  The hooves (or where the hooves would be) are made up of solely the middle distal phalanx — in other words, horses walk on only the tips of their middle ‘fingers’, which has grown large enough to become weight-bearing.  The bones that follow are other fused phalanges for support, followed by fused metapodials — the ‘hand bones’ — a culmination of wrist bones, and finally the radius/ulna and humerus.  I’ll illustrate this better at a later time but I thought it’d be worth pointing out.